Just Create - Zucchini Edition

[silvercat17]

Vegetable or queerplatonic term? You decide!

It's the weekend again! How did that happen? How are you doing? What are you up to? How are you feeling?

If anybody is interested, I'm doing body doubling sessions today and tomorrow from approximately 1 - 3pm PST. DM me for a link - it's on Jitsi Meet, which is an open-source free video service like Zoom, that requires no account or app. I'm going to be doing pomodoros (25 minutes of work, 5 minute break, repeat) to try to get some writing done

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[alexseanchai]

minutia_r is running Multifandom Poetry Fest 2022, I have written a poem

and tvailu finished my commission for miraculers-for-ukraine illustrating a bit from chapter 16 of my where the firelight fades, and it's beautiful, and edendaphne is not finished my other MfU commission but I have seen an in-progress and that is also gonna be beautiful

[silvercat17]

I'm doing a lot better than I was last week. Getting the depo shot fixed a lot of my mood/energy issues, so apparently I was severely low on progesterene and none of my doctors ever thought to check my hormones.

Now that I have energy to do more than lay around all day (and now that I'm going from hyper to a more reasonable baseline, thank goodness), I'm going to try to get some of my old writing projects continued. I've been working on a 3d character (part of which I'm planning on selling) as well and I'm making good progress on him.

[silvercat17]

I'm trying to decide which of the previously stories I should rewrite to be White Knight #2 (story index - http://www.silversspace.com/story-index/ ). Originally I had one that focused more on the police from the first story and did more world building, but I'm not sure if I want to put a more action-y one before that?

[minoanmiss]

*cheers* I'm so glad the Depo did well for you! I'm cheering you on!

[mythicmistress]

I've spent the last week doing a years-needed deep clean of my bedroom- I must have hauled at least eight bags of junk out of there. I still have plenty of work to do in there though...

[silvercat17]

Eight bags though! Good job!

[dianec42]

I feel you! I yeeted 6 bags of stuff to Goodwill, and sorted through about 8 folders of old filing (95% of which went out with the recycling or is slated for shredding). And there is SO MUCH left to do.

Congrats on making a good dent!

[cornerofmadness]

I was really happy, finished a novella for an open call and then realized I wrote the deadline down wrong and missed it by a week. Much less happy now

[soc_puppet]

I crocheted a couple of brain slugs! The original pattern was via the website Hook and Needles, which seems to have lapsed since I last visited; luckily, I still have a copy of the original PDF downloaded in multiple places. Even luckier, the Wayback Machine has me covered, pattern PDF included.

Not that I actually used the pattern for anything more than reference! It was very useful to me in the past, and I deeply appreciate it, but I also dislike making anything of that size in single crochet, so I wanted to work out a double crochet version. Anyway, I finished that one up, then whipped up a medium-sized one to complete a commission from a friend. They now have three crocheted brain slugs of increasing size, so it will look like the slug is growing when they wear them while staffing a convention 😂

[dianec42]

it will look like the slug is growing when they wear them while staffing a convention

That is so awesome! This is definitely the silliest thing I've read in a while. :)

[dianec42]

I had the week off, so I did some decluttering and a lot of generally hanging out doing nothing. I am SO ready to retire.

I made a small amount of progress on the test t-shirt. I am using a pattern and the instructions continue to be BREATHTAKINGLY terrible. I have started annotating the instructions IN INK, complete with snarky comments.

I have been having a bad brain week, so I've mostly been cross stitching instead of sewing. One nice thing about cross stitch is it's very hard to screw up so badly you actually ruin it - it's pretty easy to back out misplaced stitches, or remove them later, and redo them. Not every craft comes with an Undo function!

I made some good progress decluttering. I can actually WALK INTO my walk-in closet, for the first time in years.

Honestly the biggest thing I accomplished this week was 2 calls to (separate) doctors' offices. One was just to find out WTF happened to my appointment and reschedule. The other was to a specialist, cancelling my follow-up appointments and leaving a VERY detailed message about why I won't be coming back. Why are specialists such assholes? This isn't even the first doctor I've encountered who is unprofessional and a bully. But this is the first one I've stood up to.

I know that last one doesn't sound super creative but I'm proud of myself. May I never have to do that again.

[silvercat17]

We're open to any sort of productivity, and that sounds like some important ones!

Go you!

[readera]

I and my partner are still recovering from a flu that hit us hard last weekend. So this weekend is catch up cleaning & relaxing. Yesterday I vacuumed & steam cleaned the carpet. Today I'm planning on doing as much laundry as I can and hopefully some cooking or
meal planning at least.

[silvercat17]

Oof, go you!

[mekare]

I picked up a WIp again that I started a year ago and am finally making headway towards finishing it!

[silvercat17]

Awesome!

[mekare]

It is a relief to have it off my list!

[falcongrrl]

Do you often host body doubling? I'd love to do some both for writing and house tasks.

[silvercat17]

Not very regularly. I pay for the ADHD Studio (https://www.adhdstudio.ca - I got a discount since I'm unemployed) and sometimes host body doubling on there if there's none scheduled at a good time for me, and sometimes I cross post it here.